Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

iPhones have over 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon. Image: REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters
Graham Kendall
Professor of Computer Science and Provost/CEO/PVC, University of Nottingham

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